Star Wars: Battlefront - Outer Rim

Fight among the factories of Sullust and battle within Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine in the Star Wars Battlefront Outer Rim digital expansion.

Features

New Mode: Extraction: Rebel forces have entered some of the most dangerous places in the Outer Rim in order to extract a valuable shipment of resources. Now they must bring the shipment to their transport ship before time runs out. The Empire has arrived to stop them from reaching the extraction point.

Explore New Locations: Blast enemies in the smelting factory or along the industrial pipes and platforms of Sullust or fight through Jabba’s throne room and sail barge garage on Tatooine.

Become More Powerful on the Battlefront: Arm yourself with the new Relby V-10 rifle and DT-12 blaster pistol and collect and equip the Scatter Gun, Dioxis Grenade, and Adrenaline Stim Star Cards.

Play as Iconic Heroes: New playable hero characters will have you shooting first with Greedo or targeting foes with precision as Nien Nunb.

Below are the patch notes specific to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC for the Outer Rim Update.

Additional Content/Functionality

Outer Rim: Now available for Season Pass owners

New Feature: Hutt Contracts add a new way of obtaining Weapons and Star Cards

New Feature: Spectator Mode introduces a way to watch Private Match games with a variety of camera angles and the ability to swap between players quickly

Multiplayer Menu: Redesigned the screen to facilitate players being able to get into a game mode more quickly and easily

Multiplayer: Teams will now re-balance when transitioning between maps

Teamplay Focus: New feature in which an objective can be highlighted by each player to highlight where players are heading; press X (Xbox One), Square (PlayStation 4), or E (PC)

Ranks: Increased Rank cap from 50 to 60

Scoreboard: Added icons for playing as a Hero, playing in a vehicle, and player ping

Scoreboard: Rearranged Score to be the first column represented

Scoreboard: Faded player row to signify when a player has been defeated

UX: The currently selected Trait card is now shown in the deploy screen

Credits: Updated Game Credits list

Weapon and Star Card Changes

New Weapons: The DL-18 and the DLT-19X can be obtained via Hutt Contrats

New Powerup: The T-7 Ion Disruptor has been added to the powerup pool

General: Triggering a card right before death will no longer result in an effect not triggering and the card going on cooldown

Bodyguard: Corrected the Level 3 description from "Decreases explosive damage by a high amount AND blaster damage by a small amount" to "Decreases explosive damage by a medium amount AND blaster damage by a small amount"

Survivalist: Corrected the Level 3 description from "Health regeneration starts much faster AND replenish a small amount of health with each kill" to "Health regeneration starts faster AND replenish a small amount of health with each kill"

Bounty Hunter: Corrected the Level 3 description from "High chance to get a Power-up with each kill AND resets cooldown with each kill" to "Medium chance to get a Power-up with each kill AND current cooldowns decreases with each kill"

General: Princess Leia's Honor Guard and Emperor Palpatine's Shocktroopers are limited to only 2 spawns during the Heroes vs. Villains and Extraction Game Modes

General: Players no longer instantly die during vehicle deployment after having taken damage that would kill them prior to the transition

Fighter Squadron: Games will no longer end in a draw when a player that crashes into the ground would have awarded the winning points

Fighter Squadron: Vehicles of equal size will now both be destroyed when colliding regardless if one vehicle is shieldedHero Hunt: Redesigned the way in which the new Hero is selected, now the top 3 damage dealers have a chance to be the next Hero - Spin the Wheel!

Blast: Re-added Sulphur Fields back into the Blast map rotation

Drop Zone: Altered player count from 16 to 12Mission Changes

Survival: Stars earned in the Survival in the Ice Caves and Rebel Depot Missions now count towards your total in the social hubSurvival: Zoom now functions properly on all maps

Survival: The AT-ST during Wave 4 on Hoth will now properly spawn in

Split Screen: Player 2 can now see the health of Player 1's deployed turret